"While screenings performed on third-graders with private insurance found that 48 percent had experienced cavities and other dental problems, among families whose children relied on MassHealth, 65 percent had endured such problems"

Sunday, February 27, 2005

"Dr. Jay Holthus, with the ACTION Health Dental Clinic in Sunbury, has seen many young patients with cavities throughout their mouths. He recently had a 4-year-old patient who needed 19 root canals and one extraction in his mouth of 20 teeth"

"Organized dentistry is oblivious that their 1950’s concept, fluoridation, fails modern America as they continue to misrepresent fluoridation’s value. Since fluoridation began, dentists got richer and the poor were left behind. Take New York State, for instance:"

"The center treats about 10 to 15 children per month with multiple cavities or baby bottle syndrome, a rotting of the front teeth at the gum line that occurs in children ages 2 to 5.

Other 5- and 6-year-olds need to have their baby teeth extracted because they've become decayed. Hicks said some children's teeth are so bad that they were sent to pediatric specialists in other parts of the state."

Friday, February 18, 2005

“We're seeing more cavities right on top of the teeth - called fluoride cavities - where the enamel is still hard on top but underneath it's blown away because the cavity has gone into the dentin and spread out."

Monday, February 14, 2005

"He sees too much pus, too many cavities, excessive decay. His primary diagnoses are ignorance and poverty. Parents don't know what to teach their kids about teeth. And they can't afford regular visits to the dentist."

"Most of the European scientific dental associations no longer recommend the use of fluoride supplements, such as fluoride tablets or drops, as a standard procedure in caries prevention. This is due to the increasing evidence that the effect of fluoride is mainly the result of chemical reactions on the tooth surface."

Sunday, February 13, 2005

"Nearly half of children in Pittsburgh between 6 and 8 have had cavities, according to a 2002 state Department of Health report. More than 70 percent of 15-year-olds in the city have had cavities, the highest percentage in the state. "

Sunday, February 06, 2005

"There were 17,102 emergency dental visits at 25 hospitals surveyed in 2003 by the Greater Cincinnati Health Council. That represents just 2 percent of all cases handled by local ERs, but the sheer number is staggering when you consider that many of those problems - and the subsequent cost to taxpayers - could have been prevented with routine care, critics say."

Saturday, February 05, 2005

"The children's mouths, often rife with decay and gum disease by first grade, give them away, dentists said. 'Their teeth are just totally bombed out,' said Sally Cram, the dentist who led the logistics yesterday at Howard."

"Ninety percent of those in line needed some sort of dental care. "A large majority" were suffering significant decay in five or more teeth, Cram said."

Friday, February 04, 2005

"District of Columbia Dental Society volunteers pre-screened almost 500 children for Give Kids A Smile on Dec. 9, finding that a full two-thirds will require follow-up care Feb. 4.

'We had a lot of children who had never seen a dentist in their lives,' said Dr. Sally Cram, DCDS immediate past president and 2005 Give Kids A Smile chair. 'We saw quite a lot of decay, too. On Give Kids A Smile day, we'll do everything from fillings to extracting teeth, and evaluate severe bite problems that will need orthodontic evaluation.'"

Thursday, February 03, 2005

"Local 10's Jilda Unruh even talked to a mother who said she had to pull her own child's tooth because she couldn't find a dentist to do it.

Video shows rotted teeth, an abscessed tooth, a cavity untreated for two months, swollen gums and an infection in the bone, all in the mouth of 7-year-old Jamya Holt.

"When I eat, it hurts," Jamya said.

"Dr. Luisa Utset-Ward, a leading critic of this experiment with privatized dental care for Medicaid children, showed Local 10 pictures of a child's cavity that had gone into an open nerve. She says the child had been in pain for nine days, unable to get in to see an ADI dentist.

"I had to do a little root canal on his primary molar because it was decayed so bad," Utset-Ward said. "And there's absolutely no reason whatsoever why somebody couldn't have gotten that child out of pain. Intolerable."

In 2003, in Miami-Dade County, the state paid $14.9 million in pediatric dental Medicaid claims. However, ADI's contract is worth around $18 million a year.

Last July, one of Palmer's sons had an abscessed tooth ... "'His gum was protruding and bleeding," she said. "I couldn't find one provider in that book that would make an appointment with me ? ...'Palmer got antibiotics for her son from a medical doctor, and then got out the pliers."

"But another Labour councillor, Jean Cromar, said: "Tooth decay is not a fluoride deficiency disease but the result of poor dental hygiene and a generally faulty diet, mainly an over consumption of sugar."

Two thirds of the U.S. public water supplies are fluoridated and virturally 100% of the food and beverage supply yet:

"Every day, four to five million children in the U.S. suffer tooth decay severe enough to cause them pain and infection. Thousands of these children have trouble eating, sleeping and paying attention in school, the ADA said, and untreated dental needs in children often lead to costly and painful emergency surgery or hospital care."

"'They don't smile (because they) have open decay showing when they're smiling and (we cannot) have it affect their self-confidence in that way,' Dr. Jeter said. 'Kids need to be able to grow up as healthy as possible"

"'There are thousands of disadvantaged children in our community and across Michigan who, for economic reasons, are not able to receive regular dental care,' said George Goodis, DDS, MS, president of the Michigan Dental Association."

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A woman developed painful, weak bones after drinking gallons of instant iced tea every day for years, which filled her body with harmful levels of fluoride, according to a new report."

"So Whyte asked himself, could other people be getting harmful amounts of fluoride from instant tea? 'My rationale, in part, for reporting (this woman's case) is yes, I think that there are,' he said."